With Robertson and a few others, Jerry Falwell presided over the rise of a Christianity unrecognizable to many of us who were raised in that faith. This Christianity’s moral purview was reduced to two issues: abortion and homosexuality. It had nothing to say about feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, helping the helpless.
Worse, it was […]

For the sake of fairness.
David Sanders take - Rudy first; Huckabee second - the Republican Party last
Poor David, he hasn’t much to work with here. His strongest candidate, Guilani exposes his party to the harsh reality that “they” are willing to throw the baby (abortion) under the bus as long as they are nominating someone […]

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Hard as it is to believe now, Jerry Falwell came in second only to Ronald Reagan in a 1983 Good Housekeeping poll anointing “the most admired man in America.” By September 2001, even the Bush administration was looking for a way to ditch the preacher who had joined Pat Robertson on […]

The immigration issue offers President Bush a chance to leave behind a significant legacy other than the war in Iraq. But unless he can execute a turnaround in both his political fortunes and his political strategy, his leverage on Capitol Hill is almost nonexistent.
It’s not just that he’s an unpopular lame duck, although that’s part […]

by Patrick J. Buchanan
It was the decisive moment of the South Carolina debate.
When Ron Paul said the 9/11 killers were “over here because we are over there,” he was not excusing the mass murderers of 3,000 Americans.
Rudy Giuliani broke format and exploded:
“That’s really an extraordinary statement, as someone who lived through the attack of 9/11, […]